Today’s work went swimmingly! Thanks in very large part to all the work Patrick put into cutting out all the pictures and text we had prepared, mounting them on yellow paper, and mounting all that on sturdy poster board. Ultimately, all we had to do was glue everything down in an eye-popping arrangement, and we were golden and buzzing! See you all on Tuesday!
Afterwards, we retrieved the giant barrel of bamboo that Patrick had cut at his house, and Jamie and I took it down to the Horticulture Center to prepare some bamboo bee houses. We were initially having trouble keeping our bamboo together, but then Jamie and John went to find some pieces of PVC pipe we could use to hold our bamboo. The best part is? No adhesive necessary. Just stuff the pipe full enough and the bamboo will stay.
As you can see, we slid some wire through them, and they are ready to hang! We’ll have these as well as our hypertufas (the bee huts from last week, made from perlite, peat, and Portland concrete.) next Tuesday! A hypertufa is a substance mixed together to resemble rock, literally “extremely rock-like”.
Until then, stay beesy!
Ah, that’s awesome to hear, thanks! And thanks for spreading the BEE love!
YOUR TEAM ROCKS!!! It was very evident that your team was passionate about your project and fully immersed into the subject of BEES. I loved learning about the different types of bee houses and have even suggested my Mimi (grandma) make a bamboo one for her garden! Great stuff from this team all around, all semester!